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What a “plugin aware” Calypso looks like

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2016

In my last note, I started talking about the plugin awareness stuff in Calypso and it morphed into a more broad editorial about Automattic's relationship with the WordPress community. But what does plugin awareness really mean in Calypso? After getting…

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2016

Hosting

I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active…

All the Footnotes

David Bisset

December 12, 2016

I was inspired by NPR’s How…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

I was inspired by NPR's How I Built This podcast with the founder of Patagonia (clothing), Yvon Chouinard. He advocates for slower growth in companies, in order to create the kind of place that can be around for a hundred…

WordPress TV is lighting up with talks…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

WordPress TV is lighting up with talks from WordCamp US. I'm interested in several of them, since I didn't get to see any while I was there. Top on my list for now (though not in order): Ines van Essen talks…

John James Jacoby has recently announced…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

John James Jacoby has recently announced that he's exploring how to be, "a fully funded independent ambassador for WordPress and the surrounding initiatives," in 2017. He's aiming to obtain sponsors that would provide him funds to work on specific projects, via…

Pieter Hintjens is a programmer and…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Pieter Hintjens is a programmer and writer who has founded multiple online communities, and I recently came across his creative commons licensed book on community building. Pieter gets into the mechanics of how a community should sustain itself; I found the…

Mel Choyce, a WordPress core committer…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Design

Mel Choyce, a WordPress core committer and the designer of Twenty Seventeen, shares thoughts on how good design feedback should be structured. My favorite is probably the last one on the list: Frame feedback as suggestions, not mandates. “What if…

If you are looking for a…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

If you are looking for a free vector graphics editor for Mac, Windows, Linux, or even a Chromebook, check out Vectr. It recently came out of beta and could prove to be a nice alternative to folks not interested or able…

Tom J Nowell talks about abusing…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Tom J Nowell talks about abusing post meta in a recent blog post. Querying by meta data is pretty much always a bad idea, and Tom explains why you should look at using taxonomies instead. Joe and I talked about indexing meta (you can…

I loved these charts from Yoav…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

I loved these charts from Yoav Farhi on the "half-life" of WordPress code. The charts were generated from scrips authored by Erik Bernhardsson that he used to analyze Git projects. They show WordPress's growth (by lines of code) over the…

Calculating a true related posts algorithm…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Calculating a true related posts algorithm in WordPress is often associated with poor performance, but Yoast is introducing a different way in an upcoming release of the commercial version of the Yoast SEO plugin. The method they are using is to utilize the existing browser-based content…

K. Adam White released his Node…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

K. Adam White released his Node client for the WordPress REST API alongside the release of WordPress 4.7. It's an isomorphic JavaScript client for interacting with the WordPress REST API, and it's available on npm. Definitely check this out if you're…

When you add new features to…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

When you add new features to WordPress, there's always someone wanting a way to remove it. Justin Tadlock walks us through how to remove the customize CSS option in WordPress 4.7, which many developer may not need, or want to…

James K Nelson has a post…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

James K Nelson has a post that shows you how to learn React without all the additional stuff that people tend to use with it.

Patrick Rauland recently decided to leave…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2016

Patrick Rauland recently decided to leave (drama free) from Automattic, and he details his thought process. Patrick cut his expenses, planned how to bring in revenue, and generally got ready to go before he actually left. I realize not everyone can do this…